As the title says there never seems to be enough time.  We are starting June now and it feels very hot here in VA.  Even in the mountains it feels hot, where I was raised in the swampish areas around the state capital it would be unmercifully hot and no breeze, humid with LOTS of insects.  One of the first things I noticed when we moved here was how much cooler it felt.  Guess I am just use to being here now.

Well I started harvesting the chickens(to say it nicely..)  I only managed three this weekend.  With my wife being with child makes it harder, so this year I decided to skin them instead of pluck them.  It goes faster and leaves less for her to do, all she has to do is cut them up and bag them, but I don't feel they taste as good that way.  I am hoping to get a couple more done to night and some later on this week.  The big butcher day thing is really a big pain and this will probably be the last time we do it.  I am hoping to get the flock up and going and just butcher as we need or want.  This has its own problems though as well.  The chickens are never as tender this way, many are culled hens only suitable for stewing, and the occasional young bird for anything else and I love roasted chicken and as the username implies fried chicken.

I have also gotten way behind on the garden.  I got all the mulch down but then took a "break".  Now I have a lot of weeding to do or I will loose it all to the weeds.  They are not bad yet, but are to the point were I must get off my a$$ and do something or they will be.  I have put way too much work into the garden this year for that to happen! A bit of good news discovered that one of our trees is a mulberry and they are starting to get rip so while weeding yesterday we were enjoying mulberries, my wife is already looking at recipes for them.

As I said it is hot here and I have not even begun shearing the sheep.  The poor things spend most of their days lying in the shade.  Ramboullets are very woolly and I HAVE to start this week.  We were suppose to get a rain yesterday and we did not, I was a little mad because the garden really needed it, but if it had I would have been put off for shearing by several days, waiting for them to dry out, so thank the gods it did not as now I could start on Tuesday.

I was really feeling annoyed and swamped yesterday evening, but I got a sense of peace between then and now.  I now feel I still do not have all the time I want, but I feel that everything important will get done.  I feel this will be a good week for me, but a little extra mojo juice never hurts so if you got some to spare, you find it lying in a corner or something it would be great if ya could send it my way.